f we look at the respondents by geographic location we find that 214, 45% of the total number of respondents, were born in the USA, and 210 currently reside there.  The second largest proportion by country of birth are those born in Scotland at 185 (39%), however, only 44 respondents currently reside there, and three of these are “incomers”.  Therefore expatriate Scots count for 30% (141 respondents) of the total survey population.  This also means that as a percentage of the number of Scots who completed the survey and were born in Scotland, 78% are currently living in another country.   

Destination countries of expatriate Scots respondents, in order of popularity, are Canada (28% of expatriate Scots [ES]), US (22% ES), Australia (15% ES), England (11% ES), Indonesia and New Zealand (both 6% ES), China and South Africa (both 1%ES) and then a number of other countries (all <1% ES). Thus the survey results would seem to reflect that Scots are still migrating throughout the world.  Other respondents to the survey came from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Iceland, France, Japan and Uruguay.  Of course, we do not know if these people have ever lived in Scotland, so survey respondents were asked a follow up question: have you ever visited Scotland?  18% of those who responded to this question (382) had never visited Scotland. 

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